00:59,
May 26, 2011

For a recent project, I had need of simple Python libraries for currency
conversion, stock quotes, and airport code lookup. In the past, I was using
perl for this, so I used
Finance::Currency::Convert::XE and
Finance::Quote.

But since I’m using Python here, those aren’t available to me. And
unfortunately, I couldn’t find anything on the web either.

And for the airport codes, I got a list and stuck it in a database. But then I
have to maintain that… and that’s annoying.